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I am absolutly amazed. After not using a PDA EVER I can't get along without my Visor. I've got all my phone numbers, friends e-mail address, and such in there. I can't believe how much I've put in my date book. I've used alarms on events at least a dozen times this week. In short, I can't believe how much I'm using something that I wasn't really sure I needed (but the company pays for it so what the heck).

Also, I'm reading Treasure Island in e-book form. It's great when I go get a relaxing lunch and I need something to read.

Also, at work we have a project where I'm in southern california, another software engineer on the project is in Boston, and another is in Bahrain. The City Time app is priceless.

So how are you folks using your new Visors? Especially the ones who never had a PDA before.

I dont have mine yet but being in high school I'll be useing mine to keep track of assignments. That and using it as you are, phone numbers, addresses, etc. I had one of those paper planners but in order to fit all my writing on it I need a really big one and then it just gets annoying to pull it out and write stuff. Oh and also the fact that I love anything with batteries and a microchip .

One of my many hobbies is woodworking. Today I had to go pick up some red oak, some hinges, some white melamine edge stripping, and so on. I find that the memo pad is an excellent place to keep my shopping list.

I use it for Scripture, e-books, appointments, personal, business, and local restaurant phone numbers (much more convenient than using the cell to store these numbers).

Also, for the holidays, we're picking people up from the airport, and traveling ourselves. I have all necessary flight info in Datebook+. We'll be doing some cooking when we visit my mother-in-law, and I have various recipes for quick recall. I use it for shopping lists and idea lists. I have things I read to myself each morning that I keep in MemoPad.

Basically, anything that I used to have on little scraps of paper stuffed in a pocket calendar is in mine. And if you ask my wife, anything that "doesn't really make sense but that lets me use it" goes in there, too.

signed,
mark "boy I wish I got a Deluxe" n.

Although I'm not really a first time PDA user, this is really the first time that I have had one with a lot of capability.

My first PDA, a PalmPilot Professional from 3Com, with only 1 mb of memory, was used mainly for addresses and scheduling info. I really didn't use it for much else because of the memory limitations.

Since receiving my Visor yesterday, I have already downloaded several applications. First of all, something that didn't even need to be downloaded was the new calculator. As a scientist, the scientific calculator is definitely long overdue. I've also downloaded AvantGo for storing web pages that I can check out during the day.

I've got AportisDoc for viewing documents, and here I decided to catch up on a little reading, so I also downloaded Jules Verne's the Underground City, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Not to mention the Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Southpark Bigger, Longer, Uncut, and Spaceballs The Movie Script. Plus, I've got some chemistry reference material such as the periodic table and amino acids and such.

Of course, I still use the datebook (now datebook+) and telephone directory religiously. I've downloaded CityZen, which is a world map. And of course, I've got lots of games (PocketChess, Tank, Reversi, Subhunt, and RingTris to name a few).

And with all that, it still only uses up about 2.5 MB (glad I bought the Visor Deluxe ;-) ...

I'm thinking about buying the Tiger Woods' Golf Module, and am toying with the idea of a pager or cell phone springboard when they come out as well,... maybe even a modem,...

Memo pad for shopping lists? Forget that! Get HandyShopper; it's freeware!
http://www.palmgear.com/software/sh...amp;prodID=1350

MJH <><

I don't have a Visor yet, but when I get one I have a lot of work waiting for it. I am a professor at a small liberal arts college, so I plan to use it to...
- Schedule my daily to-do list (long as your arm on most days!)
- Keep addresses, phone numbers, emails, etc. of friends, colleagues, textbook suppliers, etc.
- Jot down and organize teaching and administrative ideas
- Schedule and coordinate appointments with students (that's where the PC linking becomes really useful)
- Get/send email while I am away at conferences
- Keep track of personal and professional spending
- Wow my colleagues in the math/cs department with how cool it is (kidding, but only a little)

I also foresee using some of the scientific springboards (motion sensors, etc.) in my math courses to gather data for group exercises.

Basically it is going to replace my trusty Franklin Planner. Not only do I have a very diverse job description, but I also have a terrible memory, and so being on three different committees and teaching four different math courses and having 10-15 advisees really cries out for something with a lot of power and memory.

The thing that pushed the Visor from "toy" status to something I truly need, in my mind, was how compact it is (like all PDA's) and relatively cheap it is (NOT like all PDA's!). My Franklin Planner is "compact" sized but it still won't fit in a tote bag with a Calculus book, a Geometry book, and three or four homework sets.

Looking forward to actually owning this thing!



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Robert Talbert
Division of Mathematics and Computer Science
Bethel College
Mishawaka, IN 46545

My significant other has a company car so she is the only one allowed to drive it which means I ride shotgun durring my 40 minute commute to work 5 days a week. My visor loaded with games and avantgo makes sitting in traffic a lot less painful
~Mitchel

Cashman or anyone else,

Where do you get the E-books? Are they Free or do you need to pay for them?

I have had my visor for a little over a week now and love it! I use it for all the usual things as well as keeping everylittle piece of information that I might someday need in it, like car license plate number (I just can't remember it.) My wallet is also cleaned out of the little scraps of paper I had in there with information. I use to keep shopping lists, christmas gift lists, work information, emails. It is just a great toy...I mean PRODUCTIVE TOOL!!

There's tons of book available for free at www.memoware.com

I plan on using mine to be cooler than the palm users.

After all, I've been living out of a daytimer for 15 years.

Used to use Daytimers, but haven't even stuck with a paper organizer for long in recent years.

I got a PIM at work recently (Chronos Consultant for Mac, has a Palm Sync option) so I synched all my contacts and calendar stuff to the Visor. Other stuff on my Visor:

Memos about stuff to do at work and personal stuff. I have used memos in meetings to take notes, although I really can't write as fast as I can on paper with pen;

TinySheet and JFile (although I don't use them for much yet I see them being potentially useful in the future)

AportisDoc and a bunch of books (Pride and Prejudice, The Haunted Bookshop, Pickwick Papers) They're taking up a lot of room at the moment: I probably don't need to many and will delete a few when I'm done reading. I read at odd moments (waiting in the doctor's office, waiting for a movie to start) and haven't suffered too much eyestrain, although constantly scrolling down does get to be a pain.

I got "Account Manager" and when I find time I'm going to enter all my #@(@&! account usernames and passwords for all the Web sites where I'm registered, etc. Drives me nuts trying to remember all that stuff!

One of the first practical uses I put my Visor to was when I recently broke my ankle on the way to work, was taken to the hospital, and had to call my husband and my office from the emergency room...I was in such a state I couldn't remember my own phone number, let alone my husband's work number, but my Visor was right there! I also used it to read while waiting for the doctor.



[This message has been edited by Nitpicking Department (edited 11-30-1999).]

I'm a linguophile; I use the Memorizer (flashcard program) along with a Chinese and Russian writing/reading programs. This beats the heck out of carrying around piles and piles of 3x5 notecards. I love it!